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Umar, Abdul Majeed Al Tayeb; Ameen, Abdurrahman Abdulmlik – Arab World English Journal, 2022
This research aims to evaluate Nursing One; a textbook endorsed to teach medical English to premedical students at Umm-Al-Qura University. The study is quite significant as it attempts to check the suitability of this book for premedical students who are assumed to be taught the proper language that qualifies them to study medicine through an…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Kalfut, Thamer – English Language Teaching, 2022
Over the last two decades, there has been a growing trend in Saudi Arabia toward research on English language textbooks, such as Alamri (2008), Alenezi (2019), Al-harbi (2017), Aljouei and Alsuhaibani (2018), Al-Sowat (2012), and Alsulami (2021). The use of a Likert scale checklist approach to evaluate strong and weak points in L2 textbooks is a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Alsulami, Yusuf Ahmad K. – English Language Teaching, 2021
This paper evaluates a textbook called "Traveller 4" that is used in the second grade of secondary schools in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, considering its general appearance and design, objectives, content, social and cultural contexts, tasks and activities, and usefulness for developing language skills. The paper also reviews the…
Descriptors: Textbook Evaluation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Alwehebi, Kholoud A.; Ghareeb, Wafaa A. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This paper presents a content analysis study that aimed at investigating the L2 learning strategies (LLS) across three units in each of the six textbooks in the new set of secondary school EFL textbooks, 'Mega Goal', based on the lists of learning strategies adapted from Chamot and Schmitt: (vocabulary learning strategies, reading strategies and,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Learning Strategies, High School Students, Vocabulary Development
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Tawalbeh, Thaer Issa – Higher Education Studies, 2018
The present paper aims to investigate EFL instructors? perceptions of Cambridge English Unlimited (CEU) textbooks taught at Taif University English Language Center (TUELC) in the Academic year 2017-2018. To achieve this purpose, the researcher attempted to answer three questions. The first investigates instructors? perceptions of the textbooks.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Al-Qahtani, Eman Muhammed – Online Submission, 2019
This research has an aim to investigate to what extent Saudi English textbooks help in enhancing Saudi student's critical thinking skills. The research topic was selected by keeping in mind the experience that Saudi Arabia students always face difficulty in the application of critical thinking skills for the determination of best possible…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nuruzzaman, Mohammed; Islam, A. B. M. Shafiqul; Shuchi, Israt Jahan – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2018
The present study investigates the writing errors of ninety Saudi non-English major undergraduate students of different proficiency levels from three faculties, who studied English as a foundation course at the English Language Center in the College of Languages &Translation at King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia in the academic year 2016-17.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Nonmajors
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Al-Mashaqba, Nisreen Juma'a Hamed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which the listening and speaking lessons which are presented in textbook entitled "Mosaic One Listening and speaking (Student's Book)" are characterized with appropriateness and meaningfulness in light of communicative competence and meet the Principles and features of…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Textbook Content
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Tawalbeh, Thaer Issa – English Language Teaching, 2018
The present paper aims to investigate EFL instructors' perceptions of Blackboard learning management system (LMS) at Taif University in Saudi Arabia. To achieve this purposes, the researcher attempted to answer two questions. The first question investigates EFL instructors' perceptions of Blackboard LMS. The second question aims to identify…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Questionnaires
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Aljouei, Khawlah F.; Alsuhaibani, Yasser A. – English Language Teaching, 2018
The aim of this study is to evaluate the "Traveller" textbook series from teachers' perspectives. Areas of evaluation are the textbooks' activities, skills, and appropriateness. The study implemented a mixed-methods approach using two instruments: content analysis, and questionnaire. The data collection of the content is carried out by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Al Zumor, Abdulwahid Qasem – International Journal of Language Education, 2019
This study examines the challenges of using English medium instruction (EMI) in teaching and learning scientific disciplines. The main objective of the study is to identify students' perceptions regarding lecture comprehension, communication, pedagogy, assessment, and affect in an EMI setting. The participants in this study are 264 Saudi students…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Masrai, Ahmed; Milton, James – English Language Teaching, 2015
This study investigates word difficulty and learning among learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) in Saudi Arabia. Difficulty factors examined in the study include repetition of words in learners' EFL textbooks, word length and parts of speech, and adds a further consideration which is underexplored in the literature; word translation…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Syllables
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Alshumaimeri, Yousif A.; Alzyadi, Maha S. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
This study attempts to identify the extent of using authentic materials in the new series of secondary English textbooks ("Flying High for Saudi Arabia") used currently in Saudi schools. Therefore, a content analysis instrument has been designed to analyze the first secondary English textbook. The instrument has been distributed on 112…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Reading Comprehension, English (Second Language)
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Alhamdan, Bandar; Honan, Eileen; Hamid, M. Obaidul – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2017
Discourses of the universality of English and its role in individual mobility and social development abound in the literature; these discourses have contributed to the global spread of English and to the development of English Language Teaching as a profession. Despite the ubiquity of the discourses of the value and universality of English, there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Altalhab, Sultan – English Language Teaching, 2016
The study explores the social practice of vocabulary learning by examining vocabulary teaching techniques employed by teachers, the vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) identified by students as most useful and the ones they felt most competent in using when reading and teachers' and students' attitudes towards learning vocabulary through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Reading Instruction, Teaching Methods
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